Thanks.

My apologies, I had not looked at the snapshots. 0.6c12dev-r85190 indeed fixes this problem: the symlink is replaced with a copy of the file.

The latest development snapshot (which you will get if you run "easy_install -U setuptools") is version 0.6c12dev-r85190.  That is, the revision in which I added the fix I just mentioned.

I'm afraid this was already using the latest setuptools release: 0.6c11.

I've got a fix in the latest versions of setuptools; use "easy_install -U setuptools" to update and try it out.  Let me know if it fixes the problem for you.

Thanks!

I ran into something odd related to handling of symlinks today. I have a source which contains a symlink. The relevant directory looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x  5 wichert staff  170 Oct  1 10:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x 40 wichert staff 1360 Oct  1 10:55 ../
lrwxr-xr-x  1 wichert staff   20 Oct  1 10:55 editor_plugin.js -> editor_plugin_src.js
-rw-r--r--  1 wichert staff 1159 Oct  1 10:55 editor_plugin_src.js

when I create an sdist both the original file and the symlink are included in the .tar.gz. When I install the distribution using the sdist as uploaded on pypi the same directory in the generated egg looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x  3 wichert staff  102 Sep 30 14:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x 39 wichert staff 1326 Sep 30 14:50 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 wichert staff 1159 Sep 30 14:50 editor_plugin.js

the symlink has been replaced with a copy, but the original went missing. Unfortunately both filenames are used, so the result is a broken package.

The relevant package is NuPlone 1.0b2 (http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/N/NuPlone/NuPlone-1.0b2.tar.gz), and the directory is plonetheme/nuplone/z3cform/tiny_mce/plugins/linefield .